Figure 4.
Regression of average microsatellite variance (MV) for both cheetah subspecies and for all cheetahs since the original bottleneck, estimated at 12,000 yr ago (see text; Menotti-Raymond and O'Brien 1993). In addition, MV accumulation from the time of the original bottleneck to the time of subspecies divergence (12,000 − 4514 = 7486 yr ago) was estimated by computing MV considering only allele variants shared between both subspecies of cheetahs.
